{"id":222912,"date":"2026-02-05T12:28:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-inflation-drops-to-3-8-percent-as-nigeria-struggles-with-double-digit-rates\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T12:28:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:28:55","slug":"ghana-inflation-drops-to-3-8-percent-as-nigeria-struggles-with-double-digit-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-inflation-drops-to-3-8-percent-as-nigeria-struggles-with-double-digit-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Inflation Drops to 3.8 Percent As Nigeria Struggles With Double-Digit Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Ghana&#8217;s inflation rate eased to 3.8 per cent year-on-year in January, extending its disinflation streak to 13 consecutive months and strengthening signs of price stability in the West African economy, even as neighbouring Nigeria eyes a single-digit inflation figure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Fresh data released on Wednesday by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) showed inflation fell sharply from 5.4 per cent recorded in December, driven largely by a significant slowdown in food prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The latest reading marks Ghana&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602050102.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana&#8217;s inflation rate eased to 3.8 per cent year-on-year in January, extending its disinflation streak to 13 consecutive months and strengthening signs of price stability in the West African economy, even as neighbouring Nigeria eyes a single-digit inflation figure. Fresh data released on Wednesday by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) showed inflation fell sharply from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":222913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,31736,6520,4508,4509,6265,257,4687,6720,12850,254,12928],"class_list":["post-222912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-doubledigit","tag-drops","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-inflation","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-percent","tag-rates","tag-south-africa-today","tag-struggles"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}